zimablue

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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I'm not sure to what extent I believe this. There are a lot of overlapping distinctions, some blurry, I think. He chooses some for wizardry vs engineering but I don't know whether they're best. For example he puts "magic
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I'm sceptical of his argument that "we've gone from dynamic being trendy back to typed(java), because 'people' had to maintain dynamic codebases". An equivalent but probably equally not-the-real-explanation arg
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   When I say completely rewrite, I mean rewrite a class, method or library which is what we're talking about (since you probably started writing in python/clojure). Sorry, it was poorly phrased.
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I don't think that this is a constructive post. It is probably totally true - in whatever seat you're sitting in, there's no situation where code is exploratory, but unless you're saying something about how common that i
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I think the problem with this is, if I'm going to say "completely rewrite this [function/class/module] into another language", then there's a good chance you want that language to be about as fast as possible.
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I think you maybe need to know quite a lot about both in order to have a good answer. If you want to learn a bit, the reasoned schemer is the best jumping off point imo. This is maybe the best internet answer, by the author: https:/&#
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   I guess one could argue that outrage porn is a satire of outrage culture
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   Or in other words, you're 99% of people who will ever hear the number
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   by zimablue 8y ago

   https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-users-guide-to-fiveth... What I'm referring to is the "now-cast", but his other two definitions both seem to shy away from saying "this is flat-out the probabi
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Your second point is kind of confused. You don't need the prediction to coincide with the event, to judge the quality of the prediction. If I predict the elections for 2 years time then you can still judge whether I got it right or wro
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    To try and explain Taleb's argument as simply as possible: If someone tells you today that an event is 100% certain, and tomorrow tells you that it is impossible, then you intuitively will not trust their forecasting. If it's cert
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    I think he would say that the "nowcast" is so useless and deceptive to be malpractice, since everyone will interpret it as a forecast, and even if they didn't it's not in any way useful. Which I agree with (unsurprising
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Implication is that anything within a company that gets you hired that isn't A is negatively correlated to A I guess, which is pretty interesting. Looks, competence, workexp, interview skills, height, rich background, any positive disc
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    There are two levels where ultimately tech wins: 1: end to end cryptography is easier to make than break When what you're describing happens and it's banned, there's a level two technical solution: 2: put the software onto y
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Which occurs when/because for whatever reason, samples with two negative traits are excluded, the example demonstrates it well: if P(a, b), P(~a, b), P(a, ~b), P(~b, ~a) all equal 0.25: If you exclude the (~a, ~b) sample then within th
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Is there no way out, to run the formatter after the macros?
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    1. Kind of fair, it's better in some ways and worse in others. I would emphasise extensibility (this is after all an emacs thread) so I'd call it worse. You don't seem to dispute that it's a copy (in terms of engine&#x2F
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    VSCode has very much opposing philosophy to Emacs. It's a Microsoft product and it shows, they don't have standard concept of buffers/windows, so trying to do customization is ugly. For example, you can't easily implemen
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    I think the reason why it's relevant in this context is that returning nested trees of data is very much "open by default". If you imagine the equivalent situation in a typed OO language, and someone returns "ComplexCont
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    The meaning of data oriented in this context is that it's idiomatic for functions to receive and return plain data (primitives like map, list). In most languages it's idiomatic to receive and return mostly your own defined classes
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    A lot of them outsource voting decisions to companies which exist just to aggregate the most "corporate/sensible" way to vote. So the parent saying "they're not activist investors" is probably true, but then ev
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    I think if things have private state that can't be seen externally and that's idiomatic then there's a conflict, if not then there isn't. Do you think it's worth learning Smalltalk? Is it still possible?
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Can you expand on which information you think should be included and might be being omitted under that scheme?
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    I wish I could get myself to take the hit and uninstall all my surveillance capitalism but I'm taking a middle road approach => install signal, try to talk to my friends on signal > whatsapp > messenger, try to persuade people
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    This is a mental comparison. Leaving aside police gun deaths because that's it's own insane internal logic/world, do you think that black people in the US don't have more rights than Chinese citizens? So for example, wha
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    So that's a fair point, you're more concerned re UK/US because you are citizen/in a controlled country. I think that might be how a lot of people feel, and I agree. But can you see how for the equivalent guy living in so
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Sorry I haven't written clearly so you've missed what I was saying. I mean that the privacy violations of the US are of a lower order than the industrialised scale of the Chinese, and not just collecting and filtering for terroris
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Aggressive than China with countries or individuals? Which country would you feel safer taking a vacation in, having insulted the premier in a viral tweet?
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Really? Do you think the US government would use your information in a more or less restricted way than the Chinese? Would your answer change if you were: a) a citizen of the US, b) a citizen in China, c) a citizen of a country where china
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    by zimablue 8y ago

    Joseph Stalin: "This war in not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." Substitute "army&qu